Table 3.

Asexual and sexual parasitemia on admission (day 1) per study group

Variable	Study group			P
	0.75-d3 (N = 20)	0.50-d1 + 0.25-d3 (N = 21)	0.25-d1,2,3 (N = 20)
Asexual parasitaemia [parasites/µL] by microscopy median (IQR); geometric mean	968 (274–2,909); 1,119	2,620 (918–3,974); 1,896	686 (70–1,646); 544	0.071 (KW)
Asexual parasitaemia [DNA copies/µL] by qPCR median (IQR); geometric mean	10,377 (1,122–12,574); 7,052	22,815 (14,488–30,019); 19,799	10,561 (6,263–10,561); 4,147	0.002 (KW)
Gametocyte prevalence by microscopy % (n) [CI 95%]	10 (2) [1–32]	5 (1) [0.1–24]	0 (0) [0–17]	0.352 (χ2)
Gametocyte prevalence by qPCR % (n) [CI 95%]	60 (12) [36–81]	24 (5) [8–47]	50 (10) [27–73]	0.054 (χ2)
Gametocytes density by qPCR [cDNA copies/µL] median (IQR); geometric mean	12 (0–202); 55	0 (0–2); 166	2 (0–16); 19	0.117 (KW)

qPCR = quantitative polymerase chain reaction; IQR = interquartile range; KW = Kruskal–Wallis. CI 95% = exact binomial confidence interval of 95%, geometric mean was calculated excluding negative samples.

Bold values indicate a P value < 0.05.